The Federal Trade Commission announced that Skid-e-Kids had agreed to settle its charges that it had allowed children under the age of 13 to register on the site without their parents’ consent, which is against the law. According to the FTC, the site collected the first and last names of its 5,600 underage users, their dates of birth — even the cities in which they lived.

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